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Makata Volume 6 No.1

Makata Vol.6, Issue No.1 is off the virtual press.

Cover Design
Spiralation I by Melissa Nolledo-Christoffels

Poetry
by Alexander Agena, Maryjane Alejo, Merlie Alunan, Mykel Andrada, Aurora Antonovich, Avril Bones, Jaime Jesus Borlagdan, Robin M. Buehler, Tina Calasanz, Mic Camba, Eugenio Corpus, Emmanuel V. Dumlao, CW Hawes, Losally Navarro, Misael Paranial, Tony Peña, Lanie Shanzyra P. Rebancos, Alexander Martin Remollino, Maria Belen Villacorta and Ella Wagemakers.

Prose Poems
by Papa Osmubal
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A Tao (道) Sign

Le poèt de PangasinanSantiago B. Villafania, Pangasinan poet, is the author of poetry collections Pinabli tan arum ni'ran Anlong (Beloved & Other Poems), Balikas na Caboloan (Voices from Caboloan) published by the National Commission for the Culture and the Arts (NCCA) under its UBOD New Authors Series (2005) and Malagilion: Sonnets tan Villanelles (2007). Villafania is one of the 11 outstanding Pangasinenses and recipient of the 1st ASNA Award (for Arts and Culture) during the first-ever Agew na Pangasinan and 430th Foundation Day of Pangasinan in 2010. He advocates for the development, preservation and the revival of Pangasinan as a literary language. He is currently an adjunct faculty member and a senior web developer at Emilio Aguinaldo College - Manila. » more